Over the winter of 2014, as Arctic air plunged the American Midwest into its cruelest winter in decades, my mother and I—both Thai immigrants—watched as our homeland’s political troubles reached a new low. In November of the previous year, thousands of civilians started occupying Bangkok’s streets in order to protest the government of then-prime minister […]
Aesop’s Language The language of Aesop eludes me, and it’s too late to be taught a new tongue; whether they’re villains, reprobates, or robbers, I’m used to calling the powers that be—with no provisos, no thought for rank or title—by their actual names. I won’t thin complicity among the many, or inflate an individual shame. […]
Lady Maria, +++++++++++ivalue and valiance, joy and beauty and intelligence, +++++ihonor, worth, and hospitality, noble speech and pleasing company, fine, sweet face and merry countenance, +++++igentle gaze and loving glance— all these, in you, and not the trickster’s art, they draw me toward you with an honest heart. I pray you, if it please you, […]
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